Ellen Kim, Richard Miller

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Nov. 6, 2016

Ellen Eunmyung Kim and Richard Lawrence Miller are to be married Nov. 6 in front of the Small Business Administration headquarters in Washington, the agency where they met in 2011, when they worked there. They will use a provision of the marriage law in Washington that allows couples to self-unite.

On Nov. 5, the couple had another ceremony at the Lacuna Artist Loft Studios in Chicago that was led by Hamon H. Kim, a cousin of the bride and a nondenominational minister ordained by the International Ministerial Fellowship..

Ms. Kim, 35, is keeping her name. She is a vice president on the restaurant and food-service team, in Washington, of AlixPartners, a management-consulting firm. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received an M.B.A. from Stanford.

She is a daughter of Anne I. Kim and Steve K. Kim of Evanston, Ill. The bride’s father retired as an executive vice president for cellular-phone development at Hyundai Electronics in Seoul. Her mother retired as the manager of the protection-technology department at the headquarters of Allstate Insurance in Northbrook, Ill.

Mr. Miller, 40, is a senior adviser to the executive director of 18F, a program office of the federal General Services Administration in Washington that is working to change how the government uses technology in providing services. He graduated from Kent State University.

He is a son of Younghee Miller of Akron, Ohio, and the late Lawrence R. Miller. The groom’s mother is the operations manager at Broadway Kim, a wholesale beauty supplier in Akron. His father was a vice president of Miller’s Rental and Sales, a party and medical supplies company in Akron.